It's a shell-game really. Since the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the quietest months have been the first 1/2 Friedman Unit, so when they say "We'll know in a couple of months whether it's working." you know damned good and well they are looking at those stats and playing the timing angle, trying to capitalize on anything they can grasp onto.
But it gets better than mere mendacity on the part of the Bush administration. While we are escalating, the Brits are ginning up to draw down.
If Bush goes ahead with a troop buildup in Iraq, with some of those troops culled from the fight in Afghanistan, here is what I I fear happening:
- The Harper Government falls in Canada and the next government will withdraw from the NATO effort in Afghanistan.
- The British start withdrawing from Iraq, leaving the United States to pretty much go it alone in major combat operations.
- The number of Americans killed in battle will rise to 150-200 per month. I hope it doesn't go higher.
- Within 30 days of escalated conflict, a unit will get cut off in Sadr City and be lost. It will be the Blackhawk Down moment we have been fearing.
That's just some of what I see coming out of the Dionysian little moron's grand scheme for escalation of hostilities. I hope like hell I'm wrong, but I am pessimistic. Nothing these jackals have suggested thus far has worked. I see no sense to trust them again. In fact, I would prefer to see the lot of them in a dock at The Hague, standing trial for war crimes.
